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Trimble CEO on AI, Productivity & The Human Problem Holding Construction Back | Rob Painter
"I don't see this as a technology problem. I see it as a human problem."
That's Rob Painter, CEO of Trimble, on what's really holding back AI in const…
1 month, 1 week ago
SpaceX Buys Cursor, Autodesk's $3.6B MaintainX Deal, Elon Musk's xAI vs Anthropic & The $8 Trillion AI Buildout
SpaceX just paid $60 billion for Cursor.
On this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Patric wasn't buying the logic:
"Why in the world would you buy an inde…
1 month, 1 week ago
Procore's Response to Every AI Startup Trying to Replace Them
The most overhyped term in construction tech right now? "AI-native startup."
That's the take from Geoff Lewis, SVP of Product Management at Procore
and…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SAFETY SERIES: Why One Construction Incident Can Wipe Out Project Profit
"Every GC is one poorly managed incident away from wiping out the entire
profit for the project."
That line from Simon Elliott, CEO of Breadcrumb, set…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why Safety Data Is Worth Money, and Incidents Cost You 4-6%
This week's briefing covers three shifts every construction leader should be watching.
Workplace incidents in construction eat four to six percent of …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Are AI Startups Overvalued? Anthropic, IPOs & VC Horror Stories
A VC fell asleep for 30+ minutes during a founder's pitch.
The round stillclosed.
This week on Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we traded the VC horror stories …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Startup Using 2,000 AI Agents to Check Construction Drawings | $4.2M Seed Round
"We have 2,000 agents going through your document, checking every single item in detail."
This week we sat down with Brandon Smith and Raymond Zhao, c…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Why Construction Companies Are Turning to Palantir?
"I currently haven't found a use case in which I haven't been able to build."
That was Brett Adams on what Palantir Foundry can do in construction.
Thi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Polestar's Designer Found Construction's Blind Spot, £3bn Burned on the Wrong Thing, + Incoming Safety Report
Seven men carrying one 140kg steel bar, on the biggest infrastructure project in Britain. The founder of Laing O'Rourke saw it and concluded that in …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The $3.6 Billion Bet On Construction's Future
A venture capitalist walks into a bar.
"I'll have what everyone else is having."
Patrick told that joke about his own profession on this week's Bricks,…
1 month, 3 weeks ago